In this episode of Distractible, host Mark and guest Wade engage in a lighthearted yet thoughtful debate over the "hard or soft" nature of various everyday experiences—from tacos and ice cream to keyboards, drink containers, and dental visits. Wade shares personal anecdotes about playing Diablo 4, recovering from a knee injury, and playing basketball, while Mark brings humor and deep analysis to topics like the structural flaws of hard tacos, the user experience of soft keyboards, and the practicality of soft versus hard materials. The discussion becomes a playful exploration of preferences, convenience, and durability, with both hosts acknowledging the value of softness in portability and comfort, and hardness in reliability and sustainability. A standout moment involves Mark using Capri Sun pouches as improvised heat sinks for cooling electronic equipment, a creative and surprisingly effective solution. The episode balances absurdity with insight, ending with a strong, practical message: regular dental visits are essential despite fear, emphasizing health and responsibility. The conversation flows naturally from personal stories to philosophical musings, showcasing the show’s blend of humor, relatability, and deep-rooted human experiences.
Good evening, gentle listeners or watchers, and welcome to Distractible, this episode.
Blackberry Bob requires bespoke mobilization, slays Swedish Stages, then asks the eternal question.
Withered Wade performs with a strained tibiofemoral, celebrates matrimony, becomes a journeyman, and has vanilla turds.
Decycling Mark witnesses cons, splits stuff, eats taco ass, reminisces an anus, and a capricula.
From Mark moaning to I be sailing, it's time for Hard or Soft.
Now sit back and prepare to be distracted and enjoy the show.
Hello and welcome back to another episode of your podcast.
Podcast's favorite uncle, that's right, this is Distractible.
That's a little early, you just started with it.
Alright, I'm your host, because I won the last one, because I was so much funnier than Mark
that now he can't handle it, and he's being a little baby about everything.
Competitors for today, just like always, are Mark and Wade.
Mark is the one who's going. You can't prove that to the listeners.
That was Wade.
That was all Wade.
That was Wade.
Listeners, believe what you will, but it was Mark.
They are highly influenced, easily influenced, as some might say.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, am I right?
Only I'm allowed to be mean to the listeners, okay?
If there's one thing I've learned so far from this, it's that I am Wade.
You just learned that?
Yeah.
Pretty impressive.
Wow.
I've been going around saying my name is Markiplier for the last ten years.
Really awkward.
He explains why people treat you so weird.
Anyway, if you've never seen the show before,
we just revised the concept.
Which we have one of.
It's not weird.
And in the first episode, we already didn't know if we revised it right or not.
No, no, come on.
You didn't.
We did.
We have a plethora of new rules, and they're going to be fine.
That's why we have Congress in the first place.
Our Congress, anyway.
I don't remember making Congress.
We made Congress.
Oh.
Trust us, bro.
Did anyone ever trust anyone that said, trust me, bro?
I didn't say bro.
Bro.
Bro.
Bro.
That's character assassination.
Well, now you're dead, so I guess I get the right history for you.
He's assassinating my character.
All right.
Mark, you get a dead point.
Do I get, like, an assassin point?
Wade, you get an assassin point.
Woo-hoo!
Welcome back to another episode.
I have. I'm going to call it a sequel.
It's not really a sequel, but I have a sequel episode here today that I'm really excited about.
And I think it's going to be a fun time.
Before we get into that, how are you guys doing?
You guys small talks?
I do.
I'll go second.
All right, Wade, on the spot.
What do you got?
Well, well, well.
Welcome back, everyone.
I have been playing a lot of the Diablo 4 recent expansion, Lord of Hatred.
And I think I told you all. I think I told you all last week.
It's one of the better Diablo stories I think we've ever gotten.
I just. I thought it was really well told.
I thought we got a lot of lore, a lot of backstory, and a lot of interesting stuff.
And I was really engrossed in it and really been enjoying it.
I even went back and installed Diablo 2 because I was like, man, I'm just feeling that Diablo itch.
I've been real Diablo.
Otherwise, weather's been good.
A couple of weeks ago, I went out and played basketball with my nephew.
Couldn't last Monday.
My left knee has been like a little off.
I was like, man, I think I like strained an MCL or something.
Or one of those three-letter things that's in your knee.
And then yesterday, my nephew was like, hey, you wanna play basketball again?
I was like, man, I just started walking normally again.
Yes, let's do it.
Now I'm not walking normally again today.
Go figure.
Apparently, you need more than two or three weeks at our age to heal, which is very sad.
I'm walking around like a pirate.
But I had fun.
And the weather's been beautiful.
It was a little hot yesterday.
But otherwise. God, it's been so nice.
I can't breathe.
My allergies are killing me.
But like, I like sunlight.
I might be a plant.
I didn't know it, but I think I might be a plant.
I think I might survive on photosynthesis.
I think Wade's an industry plant.
I could be.
Oh, shit.
Bob, you want a GoPro?
Very much.
Way more than Mark does.
Can I please be an industry plant?
Can I please?
I'll find a way.
I've been growing some GoPros in my garden, Bob.
I'll have to harvest.
I'm going to send it your way.
Perfect.
Man, if their marketing department had any brains.
No, Wade, I can't insult them.
God, I can't do that.
Wade, no.
If their marketing department could get their head out of their ass long enough to see what's good for them.
No, no, no, no, no.
Please, please, please, please, please.
Please, please, please.
No, I mean, that's. Well, it sounds like you're going to need a new knee any day now, Wade.
But that's. Other than that, that's, you know, that's good.
So, tomorrow?
Yeah, tomorrow.
As of the episode coming out, not when we're recording it, Molly and I will have been married for eight years.
So, we're celebrating that.
So, we had the podcast anniversary, the Us anniversary.
So, May is a busy month.
But five years podcast, eight years of marriage, and more years than that dating.
I can't do the math.
But whenever 2012 was. At least eight years of dating.
Greater than or equal to.
As a good husband and partner, I know those numbers.
I'm just keeping them to myself.
Yeah, that's private information.
Yeah.
Mark, do some small talk while I calculate those numbers real quick.
All right.
So, my small talk is, once again, related to the Cannes Film Festival.
Because I have a story from there that I didn't tell.
I was saving it.
Because I was very tired and whatnot.
But the experience of getting there is fine.
You know, I can get there and it's all good and whatever.
But I arrive and they've arranged a driver, right?
And so, I've been through this.
Very, very famous.
I have experiences.
I've been through this before.
Obviously.
We all have, right?
Right.
Yeah, all the time.
Where they have your name on the big iPad and they're like. One of those triple length limos where it's just you in it.
But it's like nine rows of seats.
Exactly.
I mean, that's what I was used to.
And I'm sure that's what you have had in your experience.
And, of course, in my mind. Call it the ego holler.
The ego holler?
Yeah, that's good.
That's good.
The ego is down.
The ego is down.
Sorry.
Ego has landed.
I get you.
I am.
I am.
Don't laugh at him.
Don't laugh at him.
Wait for me.
Wait for me.
The giggle bus.
Please.
I need to get on.
All right.
So, I get down there and the guy's there.
His name is Nicholas and he's very nice.
And he's part of a company called Taxi Moto.
And I'm like, okay, this is great.
All right.
Awesome.
So, he leads me out over to the parking garage.
I'm like, cool.
I'm used to this.
Star treatment.
I get there and we go past all the cars that are parked there.
And we keep walking.
And we're now fully past all the cars.
And we keep walking.
And I'm looking around like, oh, interesting.
And we turn a corner and we go around and we go through this little turnstile like this.
And then I keep, I think, oh, I must be in the next parking garage.
And I was like, nope.
We come up to a motorcycle.
And I'm just like, Taxi Moto.
Taxi Moto cycle.
But it was fine.
It was actually lovely.
I make it sound like awful because I used to ride in LA.
I did motorcycle a little bit until I had a close call.
So, it's not like I was nervous or anything, but it's just, it's one of those things where
it's like with the going to Iceland and the Blue Lagoons, like the first thing there, it's
like, oh, I wasn't, wasn't prepared for this.
I was expecting to sleep in like a cab or something on the way over there.
And it's like, I didn't want to fall asleep on the back of a motorcycle.
Why not?
Oh, you know, just, but it was, it was really nice.
Actually, he had his own, he had a jacket for me, had gloves for me, a hat.
He made me put on a hairnet just in case for all my lace.
And then I put on the helmet.
Yeah.
Yeah.
We all got it.
We all have lace.
Yeah.
We all, it's kind of a thing for us.
I don't know, man.
I don't know what they cling to on me.
Beard lice.
Yeah.
Bice.
Yeah.
Anyway, so it was really nice because number one, I was very attentive because obviously
you're on a motorcycle and you, you know.
Oh, I thought you were like giving him a massage.
Like you were attending him while he drove you around.
Yeah.
Well, he's very stressed out.
I want him to be relaxed on this.
I was attentive back.
But it's like, you know, you, you, you got to kind of hold on because you got the handlebars
there and it was nice.
It was like, it was a little thing with that armrest and it had like hand grips.
And all kinds of things.
And, uh, I got to see all of cans when otherwise I would have literally fallen asleep in a
taxi.
I was that tired.
And, uh, it was, it was very pleasant.
So I recommend anybody who wants to, and also on the way back to the airport, this guy saved
me like 30 minutes in traffic because I mean, he was lane splitting the whole time, but
I, I, I also did that.
If anyone was like a first time riding a motorcycle, they might've had, you know, might've been
a little scared for them, but it's like, it's totally fine.
Cause it'll be terrifying for a normal person.
If they hadn't done it before, I could see that, but it's like, also it helped a lot.
He, he knew what he was doing and, uh, he was like, or I told them that I used to ride
in LA.
So that's probably maybe while he was more comfortable with doing that.
Cause he tried to make sure.
Um, but it was, it was, he got me to that airport and it was like bumper to bumper traffic
the entire way over there.
So it was, it was really, uh, it really helped out a lot.
I might've missed my flight.
Can you imagine the view if you had a GoPro to record your drive over there on that motorcycle?
That's what I was thinking too.
I was going to, oh, I forgot.
I was going to bring that up because I was like, oh my God, this would be so perfect
for this.
I kept asking because I'm like, I'm going to these places that I can film some cool
things.
And God, I tried to get my phone out and I was just like, should the wind went like this
a little bit?
I'm like, nah, I'm not going to do that.
Just not going to put that right back, right back in my pants, man.
It would have been so pretty.
Cause it was like beautiful blue waters, all these boats, like seaside road.
They were going along.
Oh, it was gorgeous.
It would have been perfect.
Mark will go back to con for four hours.
he'll fly he'll get out he'll all he'll do is get out of the airport ride around on a motorcycle
for an hour and a half filming stuff straight back into a plane but he'll do anything i presume
i know this isn't the sort of thing that's planned by people who like they know who you are and it's
so it's like thought i just think it would be fucking hilarious if not that anyone does this
but if i if someone was like oh bob you should go to this thing and they booked me you know to go to
a thing and i get to the airport and if you can't tell on camera i'm fucking huge i'm really tall
i'm six foot four but i'm also like just a huge dude and i did ride i had a motorcycle in college
and i'm familiar i would be totally cool on a motorcycle but like i just show up and the guy
with the motorcycle is like oh uh yeah hot yeah um hmm i don't know what the weight limit is for my
motorcycle interesting you're just you're like a perfectly adequately averaged
height normal size person thank you thank you sir thank you sir thank you mr host thank you
i'm sure that no one you know that no one is going to book me a motorcycle taxi if they're
if it's something where it's like i'm on you know they want me to at this event for a thing and
but it just would be hilarious i show up and the guy's just like all right i'm on the back i guess
he just starts screaming just it's like a cartoon i get i climb up on the motorcycle first it just
goes
oh no i feel like people in europe are smaller than us bob i feel like like the average height
is a little bit smaller in europe way smaller than me you might look really tall over there
but there are tall europeans i don't think there are very many europeans that are the size around
than i am having been there several times i could tell you i do feel like i stick out i can't remember
how tall people were but i feel like man when we were up on that stage in europe everyone not on
the stage looks smaller than us yeah they're sitting down they're sitting down they're sitting
down so yeah and they were lower some of those stages were the same height as the audience i
think man some of the places we did shows in europe were funny it was fine but it was like
we showed up and they're like yeah yeah this is the stage uh it's a big room and there's chairs
on this side and you guys go on this side we've never used it for a stage before but it's absolutely
a stage for you right now it's like whatever man i remember one of those like in the u.s i don't
remember one of those in europe then again i've got a terrible memory there was a stage but wasn't
it in oslo where it was literally like in the corner of a much larger room they just set up a
stage and some chairs and we're like you guys do your little show over there might have been in uh
sweden it was what was one of those anyway that's pretty fun that's crazy though i wonder how common
that is because i know like zipping around on on motorbikes or you know like scooters or whatever
is more common in especially in cities in europe maybe but i still feel like a lot of people would
show up and be like i'm not fucking riding a motorcycle like what the hell i'd be one of the
i've never been on one and i don't know that i i don't have the balls for it if you've never done
it before i get why that would be scary yeah because even if you're on the back you i i mean
probably they're used to people not like helping leaning in the right direction or something
uh you know or completely opposite they're like trying to go this way there everyone tries to sit
upright as the bike leans over they're just like no no i've just seen too many of like the fail army
type videos where there's assholes that like open their car doors and shit the motorcycles like i
so scared of like someone doing that i mean it's not gonna happen on the highway but yeah i totally
get on the cities i don't know man some people are crazy everyone's crazy everywhere lane splitting
is a funny thing for those who don't know lane splitting is when motorcycles drive down between
lanes of cars because they can fit because they're tiny because i kind of come down on both sides of
it because as a person who's ridden a motorcycle i'm like yeah why would i not do that if it's
legal which it is in a lot of places some places it's not and if you do it where it's illegal then
you should get a ticket probably but if it's legal like it is in
california why would i not do that that's very convenient but as a person who drives a car
99 of my life i'm like why the fuck would you do that you're gonna get yourself killed you crazy
ass motorcycle douchebags i don't know i come down on both sides you said you lane split when
you road mark well i mean i did for a while and then i had a close call doing lane splitting i
was like you know what i don't know if i ever need this really i don't know if this is for me
like on nice weather days most people like put their arms out stretch their arms like feel the
i'd be like i don't get clotheslined or take off someone's arm i don't know i will say one of the
things about lane splitting is you're not supposed to go 120 down the highway between cars that are
doing like 75 you're supposed to go slightly faster than the flow of traffic so dudes on
sport bikes who lane split at a thousand miles an hour that's still uncool even if it's legal
wherever they're doing that but safely lane splitting is a thing you could do that that's
fair that's fair this guy though this one's like doing wheelies
no he was yeah well i imagine the professional taxi service was doing wheelies and tricks and
shit mark's head is like one foot off the ground the whole way i was actually his i was his brace
against the ground he was using my head as like you know make sure you didn't flip all the way
back so you know he duct taped the wheel to the back of your helmet just in case yeah he actually
put like that paper on matchbox so i sparked on the way out it was really cool actually from what
i could see if my gopro was there if i had a gopro if you had a gopro imagine we could have seen so
cool shots i could i could
and unless there's more small talk should we get to the game game game game this is a
spiritual successor to a game that we played previously called big or small where we talked
about if we would rather have big or small versions of things this one is hard or soft
okay
all right makes more sense than it sounds like it does because i gotta be honest i read this in my
notes and was like it's a fucking weird idea that's not a thing it'll be fine it's good if
you guys think of anything that you would like to debate this is kind of an open debate one it's not
really like a kind of game back and forth as much as i just want to talk about all these different
things the first one i have here might be contentious but ignore your personal preference
for this specific thing i just want to talk about if you would prefer
hard
or
, soft, tacos maybe it's a taco filled with food that you really really like maybe it's like a
hamburger taco it doesn't have to be in a way it has mixed feelings about tacos that's fine but
just the harder softness of it hard or soft tacos i'm going to stand on a soapbox here for my wife
and say she likes crunchy tacos therefore hard tacos soft i'll tell you why if i'm allowed no
i'll allow it oh okay
all right okay it's because there's a good idea and then there's the execution of the idea and a
hard taco is a good idea conceptually it photographs well it looks appetizing the second you have to
actually encounter that you realize the fundamental flaw in the human design our mouths are not
vertical and then you have to encounter the other fundamental flaw of the structural design of the
thing that if as soon as you bite the cracks which propagate through a hard shell taco go
almost entirely propagate down the bottom of it so that the entire ass of the taco falls out the
first bite or it cracks in half that way and the same effect is there it has to be when a lot of
restaurants put the wet delicious but wet like heavy meat ingredients or other stuff in the
bottom completely ruining the structural integrity of the crunchy taco shell yeah 100 and it's it's
just like it's it needs to be supplemented with like a cardboard box or something like that to
just aid in the whole process and it just makes it difficult and when i'm eating i can't be bothered
with all of that as i'm whipping through traffic eating my tacos can i just say this question was a
trap because i know the actual factual correct answer but you point out a good thing mark you're
right you know what i would generally go for soft tacos you know it's one of my favorite crunchy
tacos the doritos loco crunchy tacos you know why because it comes with its own cardboard sheath
so when you're eating it you you stick out just enough you take a bite and it doesn't matter that
it fucking disintegrates into a million piece it's in a little thingy it's contained it's fine
it's great but the correct
answer is i forget what they're called exactly i think there's a thing i've seen at restaurants
that are not taco bell but taco bell has these as well it's a crunchy taco shell with a soft taco
shell glued to the outside with cheese i don't know is that is that what they call a gordita crunch
is that what that because you get all the good stuff about a crunchy taco it's crunchy it's
delightful it's like eating really it's like eating a nacho sandwich which we all know i like
but it's glued together it's like safety glass when you bite it and the crunchy taco shell
disintegrates into dust it's fine because there's a soft taco shell there to save everything look
if you want a soft taco we have something called a sandwich or a bun that already exists here's a
quote from john a shed that i think will ring true a ship in harbor is safe but that is not
what ships are built for a crunchy taco may be a mess waiting to happen but it's an adventure
worth it
embarking because it is the journey that matters more than the destination and with food they both
pretty much matter a lot but that crunchy exploration that that's that's the idea
the epitome of taco whereas listen me as a non-taco guy give me that bun all day but you
think taco you think crunch i know i think soft wrong i think smoosh you know smoosh get a
hamburger bun in full the hot dog a hot dog a taco oh god where are we going i think i need to remind
people of the quote from ib salen who was on board the titanic when its crunchy shell
was fractured by that mouth of an iceberg and all of its contents came spilling out a gordita
crunch is just trying to be a soft taco to appease to those weirdos and freaks of nature that enjoy
a crunchy taco look i appreciate the doritos locos if i have to endure the indignity of a
hard shell taco
i will approach one with my mouth and bring it near me but i will not say i imbibed
bring it near me what the hell kind of weird victorian taco experience are you having
i have experienced hard shell tacos but i did not imbibe
okay so the titanic was crunchy and sank but if i throw bread into the water you know what happens
birds eat it and it's bad for them so if i put a wet thing in the water what's going to happen
we're gonna kill ocean life put a pin in this because we're gonna get around to boats don't
even worry about that oh man i really love soft boats that one i had a strong opinion about this
next one i can't decide i need you to help me oh we're here hard or soft ice cream i don't mean
like fucking ice cubes with flavor in them i mean soft serve ice cream or like udf graters scooped
hard ice cream out of the cooler
which one i've worked there for a while so i will defer and let mark go first before i
destroy his incorrect opinion because i don't know if i can pick and i want someone to tell
me what to think uh so we're talking like from a machine where you pull the lever and it goes
yeah like soft serve like and you make the little turd cone and then or you make like a milk you
know whatever thank you for bringing up my main point the turd cone you can't make the glorious
shape ignore everything i said about the taco around it's all about appearances about presentation
you have to have the picturesque shape of the triangle going down cone if you will and then
the cone coming up it's symmetry in nature if it has the two you can't get two i don't care about
neapolitan it doesn't exist that's basically it's a freak of nature it's a random chance
but having the two swirl of color
spiral
spiraling down so elegantly reminisces me that's how you use the word reminisces me yeah yeah of
the days of unisonis with its spirals and i think it's uh i think it's important for our culture
what is your answer
it was like billy madison where everything you said made me feel stupider by the end
drift into the finish line of something i could just coast i ran out of gas halfway through and
i was like oh god i was like oh he's going for real life
ice cream he didn't mention real ice cream once what does he feel that brought up an experience
that maybe is affecting my opinion here do you know what is one of the most disappointing things
i've experienced about ice cream previously what's that i went to a i think it was a derrick
we went to like we were getting like a summer treat right and i as a kid i was always hardcore
i would either get chocolate or vanilla but there was a point where i was like why would i not just
get twist both is the best because then you get some and i went we went to this place where we're
like let's get ice cream and we're getting and i got a twist cone which is supposed to be that
that half and half chocolate vanilla they fucking gave me an ice cream cone with one turd of vanilla
and one turd of chocolate on top of it it was soft serve they just like didn't the like the
machine was broken or something they gave that to me and i was like i don't know ice cream could
make me feel rage like what the fuck is this this isn't a twist cone at all i've never been more sad
about ice cream specifically probably been more sad about other stuff you got highs you got lows
but you only felt so sad because you could feel so happy from the soft because i knew what was
possible all right wayne so as someone who worked in ice cream for well i don't know if i whatever
his position was i don't know hey see you deferred to me i should use i get to pick i did and i still
don't know what position you have so i'm gonna give mine i worked at united dairy farmers for a
year and i can tell you the soft serve machine was a giant pain in the ass it was a huge machine
that sat took up a huge amount of space and we had two little like areas where we'd pour in these
little half gallons right you had our vanilla our chocolate or we'd have seasonal like peach or
something so we'd have different ones we'd have one side we get a half gallon of vanilla soft
serve liquid you pour it in the top something fucking happens and it becomes vanilla soft
serve you get your chocolate you pour it in the other side some weird magic happens
and it becomes chocolate then you have a third nozzle which is your twist where the two combine
and that's how you get your twist so yeah if you're if that's broken i don't know how you
get a twist other than a turd of vanilla and a turd of chocolate because that's not how
you can't just wouldn't make a solid cone i don't care why i care that that happened to me and it
was tragic i don't disagree with you so that's how your soft serve stuff works then you go to
clean the machine it's not pleasant like the vanilla side's fine but the chocolate side
every time you clean it you have to rinse it with like water we'd clean it every day we cleaned the
soft serve machine every day and watching just like the chunks of chocolate that weren't fully
liquid that would stick to the sides and look like splatter in the top it made soft serve really
unappealing to me whereas with you know normal ice cream or hard ice cream whatever you want to
call it you always know what you're gonna get i mean if someone leaves it out it doesn't do a good
job or covers it properly you can get like freezer burn and then it's bad but you can scrape off it
off freezer burn to get to the good part if you eat ice cream like a normal person and you take
care of it it's consistent it's better there's a lot more options for flavor the one thing i guess
you could say about soft serve is you can make like the what like the blizzards from dairy queen
and stuff where it's a lot easier to mix in like toppings and make stuff like that udf had like 200
ice cream flavors and we only ever had at most maybe four soft serve flavors two at a time or
three if you count the twist as its own flavor ice cream has infinitely more positive effects
possibilities it's more consistent hard ice cream if that's what we're calling it superior by 9 000
miles i'm not saying soft serve isn't good there isn't a day where i crave soft serve sure but it
doesn't mean it's higher quality or better oh there's no right answers here but wade was right
i feel slapped and kissed at the same time thank you well i didn't insult you i know but i still
felt like that for some reason okay well you're welcome all right let onward deeper into the rabbit
hole keyboards we all know that soft serve is good but it doesn't mean it's higher quality
we all have hard keyboards i think in front of us right now because we're all at computers
but we all also use soft keyboards every day of our lives on our phone or our tablet or on the
touchscreen thing at the store that you have to use or what have you and i think it's hard to argue
that the user experience of a software keyboard is better in any way than the user experience of
a normal hard keyboard but would you really care if you had a hard keyboard and you had a hard
keyboard with you every place you went in order to use it for anything you might need to use it for
isn't there a reason that blackberries died i don't know what do you guys think hard keyboard
soft keyboard it's his turn to go first hard keyboard you my favorite phone i ever had was a
phone you would hold up and you could slide the back down and there was a little keyboard you
could type on a hard keyboard and man my things didn't autocorrect to something stupid whenever
i tried to hit space it didn't hit enter all the time and i was like oh my god i'm gonna have to
fucking time or period i could reach all the letters perfectly i loved that phone so much and
it only died because of like apple conspiracy where they killed the creators of the real
keyboard probably and have them locked in a basement those other survivors and they've
destroyed all the engineers of small hard keyboards i'm wearing my tinfoil hat and i know
that that's what happened because hard keyboard phones were the epitome of life and hard keyboard
much better than soft ever could be you know there's a company that makes a thing where you
put magnets to your phone and you have a basically exactly what you're talking about oh man you're
taking my points man he's robbing my points right from my point cradle oh that's fine it helps me
i'll take it mark you can have a robbed a robbed point point sorry bud oh yeah i was literally
looking up the the clicks uh keyboard thing or is that what it's called the clicks yeah it's called
clicks or something you know back in my day you didn't have to have greedy accessories that just
came with the keyboard i think however there's a problem with the clicks
thing and i don't know how they've overlooked it but they did is because they just put it at the
bottom where it could make the phone longer i didn't have any of these phones but you know in
the back of the day they were like you turn them you flip them you rotate them you wow the keyboard
coming out was like part of the thing it's like why didn't they just make a landscape they can
sell a portrait version of why didn't they make a landscape version that could go on sideways so
you could have a big because this is hard enough on a small keyboard on a digital one it's it's
even harder on a physical one where your fat thumb can actually press the other ones instead
of having the progressively getting worse intelligent features that
you know secretly make the buttons different sizes based on what it thinks you're gonna get
and it's wrong all the time now but you know i'm just like it's a it's it shows that there is a
need but it shows also that the people designing the products sometimes still don't fully reconcile
with what might actually be useful in my opinion yeah i will say i did have a couple phones that
had physical keyboards and the vertical ones all misery i have big hands i have big thumbs
i've never used a vertical keyboard that wasn't just pure agony to try and deal with but the
horizontal ones oh man i had the first android phone that ever launched i had the t-mobile g1
back in the day and it had a screen that like had like a fancy double hinge and the screen it didn't
just slide it like oh god did that thing have the best physical keyboard it was so good it had
a number row it had character keys fucking i did appreciate that but i just feel like
i do appreciate software keyboards that they exist and that you can have that as a solution
i don't know if i'm gonna come down hard on a side of this or not but nobody does a good job
of implementing them i think is the biggest problem that both kinds of keyboards face right
i had a singular plan and i think i had like one of my first flip phones the keyboard was just the
number pad right
it was just like you had to press two three times to get to the letter c or whatever it was
bro t9 texting was the shit i missed t9 oh man i remember the top part of my phone broke off so i
no longer had a screen but for whatever reason i could still text and like talk like i could call
people and talk to them but i couldn't hear so i would text people be like i really hope these are
the correct letters i am sending but it was one-way calls for like two or three weeks god damn that's
hilarious every time wade calls you pick up and he's just like mid-sentence like i'm coming home
soon i'm leaving i'm coming i'll be there in 25 minutes you're like i can't okay fuck god
jeez let's yell the same sentence for a minute straight just repeating i repeat the message
three times to make sure it goes through i mean it it's definitely should stay dead but t9 texting
was a good solution in a world where you were trying to type on a keyboard that had 12 total
buttons
i think that might be part of the reason why all these like shortcuts for words were invented
because it's like any long message you had to type out was like oh god why is my name gonna be
schmitty warben menjensen i'm going over to schmitty warben menjensen's now by the time i
text it's three hours have gone by schmitty warber jaeger menjensen oh even longer jaeger anyway we're
old keyboards are funny blackberries should stay where they ended up because blackberry keyboards
were always
awful you know is there anybody at blackberry right now that's like oh physical keyboards are
coming guys fire up the machines get the belts moving jim skeleton gets shaken like jim wake up
we're back at it i'm sure they've drifted along as a company because i think they have but it's
like this would be their time to be like all that money we've been saving up for this one moment and
definitely haven't been spending on ceo bonuses or something like that it's time it's like go
the blackberry fully touchscreen phone that they launched this is something just no one will give
it any shits about but i had a friend who had that and i remember how sad it was because he was really
excited right it was in the era when software keyboards were starting to become a thing and
like the iphone existed and it was in the era of uh the moto the moto right the whatever the first
motos of android phones i had a ringtone said hello moto there's a little beat to it like
it was like oh it's a blackberry but it's
modern it's got has this screen that moves and all and then like after owning it for a brief time
he was like wow blackberry fucking sucks like the only thing about blackberry is that it's the form
factor of a blackberry a blackberry in the shape of every other cell phone on the market is just a
terrible cell phone they were like the premier phone for a while like if you had a blackberry
you were real fancy well yeah because of because business because business people needed to send
emails and they revolutionized how you could send emails over cellular networks and blah blah blah
according to all the clips of the movie about blackberry that i've seen on youtube shorts and
tiktok they were revolutionary in what they were doing yeah yeah that's the thing i've seen that
guy from it's always sunny in philadelphia screaming at his employees about something
something client side something oh that is that guy oh that's i thought he looked familiar the
angry boss guy
from the blackberry movie is um dennis it's always sunny he's such a good actor like his
arrange is ridiculous because he is actually just becomes different roles and you'll be like
holy shit that is him the fuck all right deeper hard or soft drink containers and before you think
you know the answer and jump to a conclusion think about it a little bit more deeply because
i'm calling squeezy water bottles
soft even though they're not exactly like you know pillows they're squeezy i'm asking this for
a friend what about boobs boobs hard or soft you mean milk bags that's a soft drinking container
you mean milk bags oh boobs you mean milk bags oh yeah yeah well i mean look if we're talking
about in the context of drink containers yes also did you know that milk comes in bags in canada
yes i did know that day what the fuck canada they got milk bags in canada you buy milk
bags at the store in canada kids see those what about okay aluminum cans when you hold them before
they're open they're hard because of pressure but afterwards they kind of crinkle a little bit
they're a little softer they are a tiny bit flexible as opposed to what i'm thinking you're
thinking like a cup like this being hard well even even like a capri sun pouch when it's filled
with liquid it's hard because it has volume inside of it right like i would say the can
because it's a crushable it's
you could crush those up with your hands i would say those are soft i mean unless you're a madman
you can't crush like a ceramic coffee mug with your hands down to like right right anything that
is malleable with your own strength right all right i'm gonna go out on a very niche use case
for this because in the long run i'm not sure if it matters that much unless you got some genius
but i'll give a niche case for soft things like a capri sun in general when i traveled for making
iron lung a lot i had this
this exterior dock that i brought with me that had its built-in power supply it was very useful
but it overheated a lot so it got really warm because there really wasn't a big fan in there
i don't even know if there was a fan but i learned a trick which is a capri sun has an aluminum soft
aluminum based pouch i don't know if it's fully aluminum but it's soft so if you kept them in the
fridge and or kept them in the freezer here's how the order you do you get the one from the fridge
it's cold you lay it on top of there it would kind of
mold a little bit to the shape of it and then it would heat up and it would be a little heat sink
i would take that shape put it in the freezer afterwards it would freeze flat on the bottom
so that i could put it back on and then i started a chain of like probably the people at tbd wondered
if i had like an addiction to capri sun because i kept grabbing them all that's so fucking funny
why is mark getting all the capri suns from crafty every five minutes he gets another capri sun what
the fuck is this
and it worked it would last for like when it was frozen it would last for like an hour and it
wouldn't really drip onto anything it didn't for some reason it didn't like condensate that much
it worked really effectively as like a little cooling pad for tech uh no no one do this or it
might leak on your tech or something like this i did this because like i i knew i didn't know what
i was doing i was just desperate right people the visions of mark's server room in his bathroom with
all these people were like i'm telling you it worked man it's just a thermal heat sink at the
end of the day gopro listen i've got ideas for the future would you like a wild cherry look liquid
has a really high whatever the scientific term for heat capacity is you know it has a high that
so isn't that a specific temperature where how much energy it takes to change its temperature
by a degree or whatever or something like that yeah and because it's flexible and also has an
aluminum pouch plastic's not very thermally compatible so it's not going to be able to
completely conductive but the capri sun pouches at least if they still make them with aluminum
which i probably chained out of that they are very conductive not as conductive some metals
but aluminum still conducts heat i want capri sun so bad right now that's so fucking funny though
oh my god that's such a good idea yeah see so soft all the way no that's just you pull up at
mark's house and there's a fucking huge pallet of glower salts in the trash and then there's a
capri sun cooler parked next to his server farm the fucking silver surfer from the capri sun
commercials it's just like whoosh whoosh gotta render these physics sims whoosh
i mean it worked it worked i can't believe you never told that story i know you were in the
absolute depths of suffering of making this movie that consumed you for years but that's so fucking
funny can i give another little hack that i did for my render farm real quick but as an aside so
the the max a lot of people know i had max studios in my render farm and people were like that's
crazy it's like but it makes sense because power efficiency and and and they're i'm
going to the the apple event the worldwide developer conference i'm gonna tell them that
i did this and also i'm gonna tell my hack to stack them in a way that made them thermally
balanced is because it's a big flat block of aluminum right so what i did is i put one like
this and then one upside down like that with a thermal pad in between to like exchange heat
between the two surfaces and overall the temperature lowered between both of them because
as one worked versus the other because you had a bigger heat dissipation yeah it because i had a
thermal pad in between it was able to like exchange heat between the surfaces because it's just a big
brick of aluminum and so i did stacked them up like that like i did you know the coffee creamers
in in like the the restaurant when you go in there you stack one with a little triangle
shaping go one to the other like to the other to the other and i did that and it worked and
because it left a larger gap where the fans were so it was able to suck in more it worked and it
didn't work anyway if you could find a way to get cheap big heat sink fins and then use the fins as
spacers and so you'd have like air oh my whoa it you don't need the fins then you just need
like copper plates right that's what i had i had a thermally conductive gel pad in between them so
i'm just thinking like if you had pipes if you had heat exchange pipes through them or fins right
because then you could extract more out you could lower the overall temperature even more you could
build like a rack setup where it's like
you can put eight mac studios in this and it's all head-to-head heat synced with copper or whatever
or like man so you gotta tell these stories mark that's funny shit i try i try no one likes them
oh you're always like oh lenses oh i need a gopro you gotta tell me how you manage heat in your
electronic devices mark this is the shit that i'm here for that's that's the one niche this is how
dumb caveman wade like capri sun bob get technology good out of it all right okay all right it works
for everybody that's so good i like that yeah true story everybody about the capri sun very true i bet
you're gonna say that to them and they're gonna be like oh cool and then go back to telling about
how apple intelligence is the next great feature in computing and whatever yeah probably probably
wait good luck look i think soft is so much fun
i love the portability usability i am a soft guy but even that being said listen boobs the best
evolutionary trait ever like am i right we used to have hard boobs back in my day soft boobs
god damn changing the world but part of me always feels bad with all of the soft that i use because
like it does make a lot of waste and even with recycling there's still a lot of waste and
byproduct whereas just a nice hard glass you know
you can clean it out and reuse it you can dishwash like it's just it's always there and it doesn't
produce that amount of waste so as much as i do enjoy the soft love the soft i'm a soft guy i feel
like hard is probably the better answer for the sheer fact that like i think of how many water
bottles and cans and stuff i go through how many like awful styrofoam cups and stuff i go through
that would be counted as soft like a lot of waste and it's probably really really bad for pretty much
everything that
is true generally that it's just true that's just true fact yeah but mark's was so much more fun good
job mark i agree fun fun is fun it's so fun thank you thank you the capri sun cycling them through
the freezer though that's so fucking funny because i've had things i've had laptops and things where
like it just runs hot and you're like and i just need like a fucking something to get the heat out
of this that's not gonna like drip all over it or some stupid it's such a good silly
it's such an elegant solution plus they sell capri suns everywhere at least in america it's true
every grocery store that exists not like lauber salts hard to come by all right deeper hard or
soft dentist this one is more i like my dentist erect listen this is more of uh it's i don't know
it's a theoretical hard or soft but but i don't like the dentist right but my philosophy
is i want a dentist who's going to strap me to the chair like i'm a like i'm against my will
and it's going to get in there and it's going to fucking and do whatever they need to do not to
fuck up my teeth but to fix my teeth right i've had some teeth problems i would rather even though
i hate it and it makes me cringe just thinking about i would rather have a dentist who's like
i'm gonna get the fuck in there i'm gonna clean every little speck up because if you have a soft
then you're like maybe it's really pleasant maybe they play you some enya maybe it's really
but then are they really cleaning your teeth enough is that enough you tell me hard or soft
dentists go okay bob for the point i agree with you a hundred percent no i don't have stake in
this you get points for him for making good arguments i'm pretty sure you did no no that's
how this works i'm completely unbiased go i love my dentist in my mouth who can say you need a floss
but you got what you're gonna say right you got what i'm coming from right this is my am i crazy
here yes i think a good dentist doesn't feel like they've strapped you down and are torturing you
but do a thorough job you could have a bad dentist that straps you down and a bad dentist that's just
like you're clean time to go like what the fuck i definitely want one that does their job so i guess
if that's hard what did they just throw in my mouth wait what was that magical cleaning dust
they throw the clean grenade into my mouth they're just a
it's just a nice flavor what flavor would you like that you're clean no give me the hard one i guess
because i want them to do their job but like my dentist is both like i get some nice music in the
background i feel what both i've always liked the dentist i'm weird i prefer the dentist to the
doctor i do not mind having my teeth scraped how many points am i allowed to take away for one thing
you said apparently a lot i've always liked the dentist compared to the doctor yes like no one
likes going to either but like compared to the
doctor i will go to the dentist over the doctor any day yeah the doctor doesn't do anything to
you 80 of the time i get so much more nervous at a doctor's office they touch you and they're like
oh yeah it sounds like a heartbeat and then you leave and then it's fine what does your doctor do
there's always shots and enemas and ball squeezes and stuff what whoa whoa you need to get one of
the soft doctors what the hell the dentist just makes my teeth nice and sparkly what the fuck
mark i'm not i have no stake in
which answer here is correct but save us please look i i i i'm not a hundred percent on board with
my dentist being in the tooth trenches and coming out of the tooth war and going into my mouth and
having a tooth flashback i don't know if i need that they can talk to you gentle and scrape your
teeth with a metal pick i i don't think that's too bad because i i don't know i just i don't need to
be strapped to the dentist i don't know if i need to be strapped to the dentist i don't need to be
scrapped into my chair well they can be they can be hard but nice but like uh like a good teacher
right like they don't take any bullshit from your teeth right you know what i mean you know what i'm
talking about don't call them out by name but like they don't fuck around that's who my dentist is
they're a good dentist i don't need any pull what did my teeth do to them what kind of attitude was
i giving them with my teeth this piece better not give me any lip that doesn't even make sense i'm
they keep causing problem in your mouth those tongues get in the way of the cleaning amputate
we'll put it back later all right uh i guess you know i'm i'm because it makes it sound like the
soft dentist is not going to do a good job and this is how i am with dentist is i made a dentist
appointment to go because i was having some tooth pain all the sour candy i was like i probably got
a cavity and you know they said oh i don't think you don't have a cavity but you know we could we
need something here it's a little low on this one side i'm like that makes sense that makes sense
all right we'll get you next next month and like all right come back i'm like okay and i missed the
appointment i never came back i was so afraid that they'd be mad at me i don't know why just like oh
man they're gonna be pissed i show up again they're gonna like oh mark i was wondering when
you'd show up and so i'd be like i don't know why i just haven't gone back that was three years ago
i was like that for a while all through college whenever i was no longer
my mom's health insurance i didn't have any health insurance in like college and stuff and i was like
i can't afford a dentist so i didn't go to the dentist for like seven or eight years
and the last three years i didn't go we're just like i've not been in four years if i go now
they're gonna be so mad at me for not going for the previous four yeah they're gonna be mad they
couldn't be mad no it's real i had that same feeling i was like i don't i don't want to go
the fear is real this is a psa i guess for mark too but for everyone go to the dentist guys yeah
go to the dentist oh god go to the dentist no matter how bad you think it's gonna be
it's so much worse when you're going to the dentist because a tooth is falling out or you're
like you're bleeding and you're like oh why is my mouth bleeding oh fuck it just go because
and like it's maybe you can't afford it like the realities of the world are what they are but
if you can go to the dentist holy fuck go to the dentist because i am not i'm gonna have some oral
seizures coming up and i'm not looking forward to it i wish my teeth weren't so fucked i really
do i can't say this for everyone my dentist office i think works with people really well too for
affordability stuff i don't know that all of them are like that but like there are dentist office
that understand and will work with you so and make sure you find a hard one no stake in the
answers here but hard was the correct answer point for wade objective point for wade i lost an
unknown amount of points for my answer but also i gained one even though mark i think said hard
also no i i don't know if i gave an answer i was a real loosey-goosey which i think you know speaks
to my character i tried to make this list so that it would sort of descend into the madness i feel
like i feel like i'm not sure if any of these are going to get deeper and i guess i'm curious now
about that but i wish that they were more unhinged i have strong feelings about this one situationally
curious what you guys think hard or soft bags all in any bags it's a hard bag like a hard
suit
suitcase oh you know how they have like coolers or it's like a hard you know hard shell bag type
of deal or like a like a sturdy purse is like a hard bag like a nice thick leather purse you know
hard bag or soft bag this speaks to how much better hard bags are because i can put in a
completely different category because imagine like a purpose-built system of bags with hard
bags all the way around with like they cinch closely lock
tight and like it's like pelican cases all the way down you know there's something about like a
loosey-goosey bag that just can flop around and spill all your contents you put it in another bag
and it's just gonna flop everywhere and it's gonna be all non-committal and whatnot but it's like if
you have a hard bag like what you're saying it's purpose-built for an express solution and that's
the solution i need i don't need any wishy-washiness with my bag i need it for the intended purpose
it's laser cut to fit the things that i'm gonna put in this thing and it's gonna be secure as hell
i'm all about this that being said i dump all my shit in my backpack and then go off to france
it's what i do look both things can be true yeah yeah but when i find the bag that's hard and
purposely for the thing i'm like oh my god and i buy them and i've got a stack of pelicans you know
just sitting there empty but they're there they're there for way better yeah
in theory hard bag in practice soft bag same thing i what do i transport i don't transport
all my like equipment and stuff i transport clothes and like some toiletries and you and i
need something that's light whenever you're running through the chicago airport and have to
get 13 miles in 10 seconds and i need something i'm not gonna hit my foot on and break my toe
like a hard bag and space my god is space hard to come by and you can't squish down hard bag
you can squish down soft bag you fit so many soft bag and whenever those bags are empty they
maybe not suitcases but your backpack perfectly flat other bag perfectly flat those bags they
only let you have in california at the grocery store anymore you can stuff 500 of those things
in one other bag and then you have infinite bags i could never run out of bags from going to the
grocery store three times because there's so many bags i love wade's california stand-up routine
where's hard bag like what am i going to do i'm going to go to the grocery store three times
you know go to the grocery store with my pelican like i need eggs and two liters
soft is so much more useful hard protect your electronics and grandma or whatever else you're
carrying around sure i get it soft oh the portability the lightness the aerodynamics
i will say about the california thing um they undid the the thing with the plastic because it
was like they made just the plastic bag sticker and so they went back to like yeah we use plastic
or whatever and so now paper bags are a thing and the unfortunate thing is because paper bags used
to be at grocery stores and they were free with you know you check out they're there now it's the
same paper bags that were there before but they still charge 15 cents for them and i have to go
to the grocery store i'm like hey wait a minute hey you you move the goalpost hey wait a minute
hold on a second they're always like this yeah no i don't think so sir mr grosch this is hardly a bag
at all but can i just say you know those collapsible boxes where it's like a little
crate and it folds flat kind of deal those are what you want for the grocery store holy shit you
get one or two of those and you put them in the bottom of your cart and then you just and then
when you go to your car you fucking take one or two boxes out of the cart into your car there's
no like how many bags can i hold 19 bags on one arm and still open the door to the no you need one
good box but that's not a bag that's i would not say that that's like a hard bag that's a that's a
box so it doesn't really count i just i really like that i discovered that at some point and
was like god i love a box i love a grocery box you know anyway i decide who's right i understand
it's difficult but it's me well i understand that that might complicate things but it's me
all right no points for that last one okay that's a lie i gave points for that i was just okay i
said we would circle back to this so i basically
have to or else i'm pretty sure i'm fired hard or soft boat and think about it before you laugh
oh sorry damn it now i knew you'd do that hard or soft is a soft boat like a raft like a dinghy
like those inflatable dinghies where they get rigid when you inflate them kind of deal
like a pontoon kind of thing it depends how you feel about it i gotta go even even love i love
a pontoon i consider a pontoon a hard boat because you don't want to get hit with a pontoon
or i don't have a dinghy
you'll do much maybe it will with high enough speed but like traversing lake cumberland growing
up beautiful lake the waves and everything but there's trees and plants and rocks and things
and the water level changes and storms happen and sometimes there's just fucking logs and trees you
can't even see they're floating and stuck just below the surface and if you hit one of those
things with like i don't know if you count like a fiberglass as hard but like a speed some of the
speed boats those things touch one of those trees they're fucked a dinghy touches one of those trees
you are fucked
but if you have a nice solid boat you might still be fucked but maybe less likely to be so
so give me heart give me diamond crystal boat just gonna cut that fucking tree in half
fuck those underwater trees and their murderous tendencies on the lake i just want to be on my
tube but you know what tubes are soft and if you hit a tree on a tube you die in the sky explode
damn yeah that's what happens i tube wrong how cousin larry went jesus
hard boats and soft hard hard boat soft tube kind of seemed like you were making the case for hard
boat hard tube if i'm honest probably need to but like a hard tube sounds really painful to
bounce on and land on maybe his hard bottom soft top look okay all right let me let me clean up his
meandering lost answer here with a a quote from ib sailing who as you know was on the titanic
one of the hardest boats around and he still his quote goes
because they died right from their hard boat getting bedoinked by an iceberg and it just
split in half much like a taco this is a soft situation when i when we crash in our hard hard
plane into the water do i want to be in the hard hard plane or do i want to be in the soft soft
slide i want to be in the soft slide which doubles as a boat all of their flotation devices soft
when you absolutely need to float you go soft counterpoint what do you think
harder water or ice which one floats that's right hard yeah which one's deadly ice the iceberg from
ib sailing who was famously on the titanic once again said oh look out hard water you know what
else is deadly hard oxygen probably i won't deny that i will concede that so what's your point hard
is bad yeah hard bad no hard good no but you said hard oxygen is dangerous so hard oxygen is also
bad so hard is bad well hard hydrogen's probably hard oxygen is also bad so hard hydrogen is also bad
probably soft hydrogen what's what's the one to breathe in uh i think he's i think he's on my side
here i think hydrogen monoxide sounds bad well i'm not a chemist so i don't know about these things
i'm not a crook i'm richard nixon i was going to make the point and mark brought it up you would
think hard boat titanic sunk by ice dangerous one boat in 130 years so soft is the answer titanic is
actually a soft hydrogen
soft boat that's my conclusion here titanic needed to be harder in order to destroy the ice
instead of being destroyed by because i can crush ice with my teeth ice is not that hard okay i'm
sure all ice is exactly the same and it works the same way and when i have a drink and i crunch up
ice there's no way that a boat should be less hard than my shitty teeth that i go to my hard dentist
to maintain so really titanic soft boat titanic 2 needs to be hard boat in the era we were only
able to get so hard in the time but i gotta say of that time was the titanic not the hardest boat
they made as cal hockley said it is unsinkable even god himself could not sink this ship so
that's pretty hard okay what so cal is saying that god loses to ice too god dang fran
it's just stoke said the sea finds out everything you did wrong hard or soft
remember the alternate ending to titanic where jack and rose instead of having sex
were tucked tape to the side of titanic and just bit their way through the iceberg and saved the
boat yes hard teeth better than ice like you were saying bob you are so smart and right hard teeth
therefore hard boat i have other quotes that make no sense i could read i think that's enough quotes
i think i've heard enough the bible's go on let's go ahead and call it there i think we really got
to the bottom of hard or soft i think everybody who was watching and listening knows which one
they would want so let's just tally up some points and get out of here mark you earned points for
you died taxi moto when you realized it was a motorcycle
yeah
bice about beard lice for wade imagine having a gopro you were correct about tacos you had ib
salen who came back a lot in fact i actually think i owe you an ib salen point you were robbed
oh yes yeah definitely okay capri sun heat sinks that was genius that might be the smartest thing
i've ever heard the perfect bag you'd never use i own some of those they're the best and wade you
earned points for
you
realizing that you are wade you were an assassin blah blah something diablo greater than or equal
to eight years of dating the ego is down that was a good one you were correct about ice cream
you hit me with a classic back in my day you're a soft guy self-proclaimed you're correct about
the dentist being hard and you got ass kissing points yes that leaves once i add mark's extra
ib salen point because ib salen is a good one i think that's a good one i think that's a good one
and you have to respect it mark with 11 points and wade with 11 points
wade was actually up by two but then i realized that i didn't count one of the points that i
wrote down and then mark earned the extra ib salen point mark's just out here doing a good job
thank you man thank you and so is wade to a lesser extent we're tied
ah but that doesn't mean you're doing an equally good job
uh yeah yeah come on that must be the neighborhood baseball because everyone's taking a swing
how many wheel spins will we have it's one oh my god one spin to rule them all
wow two ones and we never get ones we're getting ones today i'm gonna say whoever was the softest
boy this episode gets a point and we will definitely not know what that means when it
comes to the ball button just existing right here makes me nervous seeing you hover over it like what
if i just put it there and then i just pick up the mouse and i'm just like
there must be a confirmation there would have to be right oh i should maybe i should click it and
find out yeah one way to find out i mean you've got a backup of this right that's my confidence
squeak 109 options on this wheel i'm trying to figure out how to do this i'm trying to figure out
how to do this i'm trying to figure out how to do this i'm trying to figure out how to do this i'm sure this one spin will result in not me spitting for a one-man show uh fate can we not oh wait we're all here we're all here at home yeah everyone's home okay we remember what that means it was witness protection everyone at home listening oh yeah it said witness protection sorry sorry listeners sorry sorry sorry sorry sorry sorry sorry sorry come on got the flattest you
come on got the flattest you
come on got the flattest you know what i mean
know what i mean
know what i mean no it's too late man it's too late it's
no it's too late man it's too late it's
no it's too late man it's too late it's too late what's its win too late got past
too late what's its win too late got past
too late what's its win too late got past tense this is best goddess best best
tense this is best goddess best best
tense this is best goddess best best get a sheet one that we do this spot
get a sheet one that we do this spot
get a sheet one that we do this spot no one got flat mark's correct yeah i
no one got flat mark's correct yeah i
no one got flat mark's correct yeah i don't think we got flat oh god that
don't think we got flat oh god that
don't think we got flat oh god that one's ever gonna work though no one's
one's ever gonna work though no one's
one's ever gonna work though no one's ever just gonna get flat for no reason
ever just gonna get flat for no reason
ever just gonna get flat for no reason what worst guesser who the fuck did
what worst guesser who the fuck did
what worst guesser who the fuck did anyone guess anything in this episode
anyone guess anything in this episode
anyone guess anything in this episode we've never spun any of these ever but
we've never spun any of these ever but
we've never spun any of these ever but i do i guess we do know what that would
i do i guess we do know what that would
i do i guess we do know what that would be but yeah it wasn't really a guessing
be but yeah it wasn't really a guessing
be but yeah it wasn't really a guessing game yeah i guess
game yeah i guess we do know what that would be but yeah it wasn't really a guessing
we do know what that would be but yeah it wasn't really a guessing of the other guys wow these are
of the other guys wow these are
of the other guys wow these are crazy different men we've never spun
crazy different men we've never spun
crazy different men we've never spun any of these i usually interrupt the
any of these i usually interrupt the
any of these i usually interrupt the most it was probably me i bet it was me
most it was probably me i bet it was me
most it was probably me i bet it was me not to interrupt my opponent but i think
not to interrupt my opponent but i think
not to interrupt my opponent but i think it was me damn it you did interrupt me to
it was me damn it you did interrupt me to
it was me damn it you did interrupt me to tell me it was you i had a couple uh i
tell me it was you i had a couple uh i
tell me it was you i had a couple uh i puts these on this wheel just have some
puts these on this wheel just have some
puts these on this wheel just have some terrible ideas oh they're good ideas
terrible ideas oh they're good ideas
terrible ideas oh they're good ideas you just want to put them
oh wade loses a point
holy that one too that's such a
holy that one too that's such a
holy that one too that's such a different i forgot about that i've got
different i forgot about that i've got
different i forgot about that i've got such bad reception right now it's unfair
such bad reception right now it's unfair
such bad reception right now it's unfair i used to like try to read the answers
i used to like try to read the answers
i used to like try to read the answers before it came up so i would know if
before it came up so i would know if this one was coming up i forgot about
this one was coming up i forgot about
this one was coming up i forgot about that it says last to touch nose loses a
that it says last to touch nose loses a
that it says last to touch nose loses a point and mark and i both frantically
point and mark and i both frantically
point and mark and i both frantically touched our noses and wade didn't even
touched our noses and wade didn't even
touched our noses and wade didn't even react
i was kind of debated because it could
i was kind of debated because it could
i was kind of debated because it could be one where it's like uh first to touch
be one where it's like uh first to touch
be one where it's like uh first to touch nose loses a point or something like that
nose loses a point or something like that
nose loses a point or something like that which should be added there it's yeah
which should be added there it's yeah
which should be added there it's yeah it's the latency latency it was latency
it's the latency latency it was latency
it's the latency latency it was latency i'm on the other side of the country you
i'm on the other side of the country you
i'm on the other side of the country you can't even use that excuse yeah but you
can't even use that excuse yeah but you
can't even use that excuse yeah but you and bob are so in sync we are it's true
and bob are so in sync we are it's true
and bob are so in sync we are it's true i'm very biased towards mark it's just
i'm very biased towards mark it's just
i'm very biased towards mark it's just generally a true statement i'm more
generally a true statement i'm more
generally a true statement i'm more backstreet boys but anyway mark wins
backstreet boys but anyway mark wins
backstreet boys but anyway mark wins with a score of 11 to 10 because wade
with a score of 11 to 10 because wade
with a score of 11 to 10 because wade lost a point for being the slowest to
lost a point for being the slowest to
lost a point for being the slowest to touch his nose
touch his nose
touch his nose
fuck classic distractible goof everybody
classic distractible goof everybody
classic distractible goof everybody congratulations mark uh wait loser
congratulations mark uh wait loser
congratulations mark uh wait loser speech
speech
speech it was a well-fought fight
it was a well-fought fight
it was a well-fought fight finicky
finicky
finicky fraught
fraught
fraught filling
filling
forlorn. Farewell. Mark, you can do a normal winner speech if you want, or you can pick alliteration, whichever one you choose.
Firmly fun feelings filling. friends? Fine. fanciful feasts for. fucking. fools.
Fancily, fairly, financially. funned.
Flop. Flop, flop, flip-flop, floors, foam.
Flambe. That's French. Cans. That's true. If anybody hears French, it's Mark.
Freedom! A classic Mark winner speech.
Congratulations, Mark.
Mm, thank you.
Well, watchers/listeners, make sure you're following the podcast,
'cause Mark will be hosting the next one, which is always good.
Way better than when Wade hosts the next one. Sorry, Wade.
Oh, Jesus Christ.
Yeah, I said that. Make sure you check out the merch store, distractible.shop.
The special five-year merch is maybe sold out, but maybe there's other stuff.
You have to look. You gotta stay on top of that.
Follow Mark at Markiplier, Wade at LordMinion777 or Minion777. I am MySker,
and that is the end of this episode. We'll see you with another one next Monday,
hosted by Mark. And until then, podcast out.
Podcast Summary
Key Points:
Wade shares his recent experiences with playing Diablo 4, a strained left MCL, and a fun basketball game with his nephew despite physical discomfort.
Wade and Mark engage in a playful debate over "hard or soft" topics, including tacos, ice cream, keyboards, drink containers, and dentists, blending humor with personal anecdotes.
The discussion highlights a preference for soft tacos due to texture and portability, while Wade argues that hard tacos are structurally flawed and often poorly executed.
Mark defends soft serve ice cream, citing its versatility and consistency, but acknowledges that hard ice cream offers more reliability and fewer flaws in taste and texture.
A central theme is the contrast between soft and hard experiences—soft being convenient and flexible, hard being durable, functional, and often more sustainable.
The conversation explores the nostalgia and humor of physical keyboards, blaming Blackberry’s decline on poor design despite its early innovations.
A creative and funny hack is shared where Capri Sun pouches are used as heat sinks for cooling electronics, demonstrating practicality in everyday tech issues.
The episode concludes with a heartfelt reminder to visit the dentist regularly, emphasizing the importance of routine care despite fears or discomfort.
Summary:
In this episode of Distractible, host Mark and guest Wade engage in a lighthearted yet thoughtful debate over the "hard or soft" nature of various everyday experiences—from tacos and ice cream to keyboards, drink containers, and dental visits. Wade shares personal anecdotes about playing Diablo 4, recovering from a knee injury, and playing basketball, while Mark brings humor and deep analysis to topics like the structural flaws of hard tacos, the user experience of soft keyboards, and the practicality of soft versus hard materials. The discussion becomes a playful exploration of preferences, convenience, and durability, with both hosts acknowledging the value of softness in portability and comfort, and hardness in reliability and sustainability.
A standout moment involves Mark using Capri Sun pouches as improvised heat sinks for cooling electronic equipment, a creative and surprisingly effective solution. The episode balances absurdity with insight, ending with a strong, practical message: regular dental visits are essential despite fear, emphasizing health and responsibility. The conversation flows naturally from personal stories to philosophical musings, showcasing the show’s blend of humor, relatability, and deep-rooted human experiences.
FAQs
The show presents a series of binary choices, such as hard or soft tacos, ice cream, keyboards, drink containers, and more, where the hosts debate their personal preferences in a humorous and often absurd way.
They debate whether hard or soft tacos are better, with Wade arguing that hard tacos are a bold concept but flawed due to structural weaknesses, while Mark supports soft tacos and shares that he enjoys crunchy tacos with a cardboard sheath like Doritos Locos.
Wade argues that hard ice cream is more consistent and reliable, while soft serve is prone to machine failures and inconsistent results, like when a twist cone ends up with separate vanilla and chocolate 'turds'.
Wade believes hard keyboards offer better typing experience, accuracy, and reliability, citing the Blackberry as a case study where physical keyboards were superior to software alternatives, especially in early mobile phone design.
Wade uses frozen Capri Sun pouches as a heat sink to cool down electronic devices, such as render farms, by placing them in the freezer and using the aluminum pouch to absorb and transfer heat effectively.
Wade prefers a hard approach, meaning a dentist who thoroughly cleans teeth without being overly gentle, emphasizing that a proper dental cleaning should be effective and not just pleasant or soft on the patient.
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